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Fair Warning - Ethical quandaries, The Simpsons, and climate change

Hello! This week has been... Strange. I've been migraine-adjacent for a chunk of it which really ruin
Fair Warning
Fair Warning - Ethical quandaries, The Simpsons, and climate change
By Sophie Warnes • Issue #112 • View online
Hello! This week has been… Strange. I’ve been migraine-adjacent for a chunk of it which really ruins my perception of time and how productive I am (and therefore how good I feel). That’s why this week’s issue is weirdly short :)
There’s only one non-data thing I want to recommend this week… This profile of Val Kilmer, which is as good as everybody says it is.

Coronavirus-related stuff
Why 1.4 Million Health Jobs Have Been Lost During a Huge Health Crisis
“A sudden drop in health spending and employment amid a pandemic[…] might seem like a paradox. But it reflects how the health industry tends to make its money: Treating patients for a deadly illness is far less profitable than offering them elective surgeries.”
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When medical resources are limited, who should get care first?
When medical resources are limited, who should get care first?
This lays out quite simply, the different ways that you could ethically decide who should get healthcare first in a situation where resources are limited. It’s brutal, and there are no easy answers (your position on it would surely change if a family member was one of the patients) but this ethical quagmire has been presented in a really useful, easy-to-understand way.
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“Pick any world-shaking event from 20th century history—none has produced a bigger decrease in emissions.” This is a really encouraging article listing the many, many ways that the environment has improved dramatically during the pandemic… But climate change is basically unaffected.
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Rallying round the flag - Covid-19 has given most world leaders a temporary rise in popularity
Rallying round the flag - Covid-19 has given most world leaders a temporary rise in popularity
There’s an interesting set of small multiple charts in here which show “voters offer support during conflicts, but rarely after domestic disasters”. So it’s interesting that covid-19 has seemingly helped buoy world leaders. Temporary effect?
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Odds and ends
Which route did Hannibal and his elephants take to cross the Alps?
A map showing the three possible routes that led Hannibal and his African battle elephants to the Second Punic War. I
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Did The Simpsons ‘predict’ stuff? Hmmm. This is kind of an interesting look at the sort of coincidences between real life and the show. I … Have no interest in The Simpsons and I’ve probably only watched five episodes my whole life so I don’t even understand most of it.
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Bad chart of the week
I can’t be bothered to try to understand what the blazes is going on here, but there’s a discussion over on Reddit:
Super short this week, as I said. I normally try to get 10-15 things in Fair Warning - hopefully that’ll be the case next week. See you then!
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A weekly newsletter with anywhere between 10 and 20 links about data journalism, data visualisation, and storytelling, curated by a British data journalist and nerd. Expect politics, statistics, society and culture - all through the frame of data... With a dash of whimsy.

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